It's called SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT and it happens frequently, and few "owners" can do anything about it, because if they resist, they become targets.

If you run into resistence with the seller not wanting to tie up the property with you because you're not the end buyer, you can use a flex option, which will allow the seller to keep marketing their property.

You must remind them that your documenting very phone call and their resistance to deal with this issue will lead them to having to foreclose.

I should have cut my losses and ran but, not me with my (persitance overcomes resistance) mindset.

It may be more than your $4,000 budget, but tends to make the house more attractive as a rental.If the front yards aren't large, you can do a cobblestone center surrounded by free form raised flower beds with a few resistant plants like junipers, and let the tenant plant their own flowers if they want them.

The affirmation I have been repeating a lot lately is:To get what you have never got, you have to do what you never didIt reminds me not to procrastinate when I come to a task I would have resisted in the past.

I gutted everything first then put up the green board which is mold resistent.

They make mildew-resistant paint, or - if you already have the paint - you could just add a mildewcide additive to it.Also, it shouldn't take an entire day to paint one bathroom or require your tenant to be gone from the home.  

I'm not familiar with the California contracts, but being that you are 12 days out from closing the path of least resistance is probably sticking with that buyer.

More resistance not to do anything.